The educational system in Sweden is expanding and while some see higher education as a remedy for unemployment, others argue that credentialing of the society with diplomas will harm the competition on the labour market and the value of higher education. However, the effects of educational expansion are noticeable not only at the macro, but also at the micro level. Studies have shown that Sweden is internationally on the bottom of the list when it comes to gross returns of higher education. During the 1990s the educational expansion led to the impairment of university and college degrees to uplift individuals to high income positions. Studies have also shown that fluctuations in training premia are inconsistent with the supply of higher educated labour force. The focus of this quantitative dissertation is on the period between 2000 and 2010. By measuring the success on the labour market in terms of monthly salary the aim is to find out how the educational expansion affected Swedish labour market after the 1990s. By using SPSS, a multiple linear regression analysis is applied on data that is extracted from Levnadsnivåundersökningen (LNU) 2000 and 2010. The results suggest that even though the effects of higher education are not dramatically different between these years, it explained more of the total variance in monthly salary in 2000. Furthermore, social background and social networks had stronger effects on the success on the labour market in 2010. This implies that meritocratic principles were utilized more during the early twenty first century and that social status continues to determine salaries in a modern capitalist society.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-29T13:31:07Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Sheila Ferreira Miranda.pdf: 1742629 bytes, checksum: bf5a8661f65c39c36fa9c174d89da31d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-12-02 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / The effects of intergenerational transmission of poverty perpetuated by discrimination, support today, the persistence of the confinement of the black segment to the lower strata and the subsequent alienation of these individuals from access to quality education in the Brazilian context. When the possibilities for the integration of the blacks into the category of academic professionals are considered, we realize that the Brazilian higher education institutes provide alarmingly racist quantitative indices, buffered by a justificatory discourse which, tied to the ideal of meritocracy and to the apology of competence, overshadow, in ideological terms, the dimensions brought by the effects of racial discrimination. Therefore, we set out to try to understand the directions given to the condition of being black in the university and thus, six oral history interviews with individuals who seek or are already inserted in such academic context were performed. It was concluded that we are facing a problem which bring us to the context of identity of such individuals, who even after their admission to the universities, are impelled to assert themselves permanently, both as professionals in the academy, and as black academic professionals. However, it was also analyzed that the energy of individual projects of transformation, the echoes of collective militancy and the instituting forces of the university can lead to multiple emancipatory possibilities. Due to all these issues above, we defend the thesis of the impossibility of discussing the lack of blacks in the university teaching system, when performed only under the assumptions of personal qualification and merit, which also implies the introduction of a debate in favor of the expansion of the quota system to higher strata within the Brazilian academic context / Os efeitos da transmissão intergeracional da pobreza perenizados pela discriminação, sustentam na atualidade, a persistência do confinamento do segmento negro aos estratos mais inferiores e a consequente alienação destes indivíduos aos acessos educacionais de qualidade no contexto brasileiro. Ao pensarmos nas possibilidades de inserção dos negros à categoria de profissionais acadêmicos, percebemos que o âmbito universitário do país apresenta índices quantitativos alarmantemente racistas, tamponados por um discurso justificatório que, atrelado ao ideal da meritocracia e à apologia da competência, obscurecem de forma ideológica as dimensões tomadas pelos efeitos da discriminação racial. Por estes caminhos tomados, decidimos compreender os sentidos dados à condição de ser negro na academia, realizando seis entrevistas em história oral com sujeitos que buscam ou já estão inseridos de alguma forma neste contexto. Concluímos que estamos diante de um problema o qual nos remete ao contexto identitário destes sujeitos, que, mesmo após o seu ingresso no meio acadêmico, são impelidos a se auto afirmarem permanentemente, tanto na condição de profissionais da academia, como na condição de profissionais acadêmicos negros. Entretanto, analisamos também que a energia dos projetos individuais de transformação, os ecos da militância coletiva e as forças instituintes da universidade podem proporcionar a criação de múltiplas possibilidades emancipatórias. Por todas estas questões elencadas, defendemos a tese da impossibilidade de discussão da carência de negros no sistema docente universitário, quando realizada unicamente sob os pressupostos da qualificação e mérito pessoais, que implica também na introdução de um debate favorável à ampliação do sistema de cotas aos mais altos estratos do contexto acadêmico brasileiro

<p>Sweden is often described as one of the best countries in the world for women to live in. Despite this and despite a number of equal opportunity interventions within the area of higher education from the mid 1990s and on, Sweden follows the international pattern of the "leaking pipeline" when it comes to gender distribution in academia. The higher up in the academic hierarchy the more men and the fewer women. The topic of this thesis is mapping gender in academic workplaces. The aim is to explore ways in which the social relations of researchers everyday working lives are gendered. This involves studing ways in which gender inequality is produced, maintained or ignored within the discource of gender equality in Swedish academic workplaces and in Swedish society at large.</p>

Sweden is often described as one of the best countries in the world for women to live in. Despite this and despite a number of equal opportunity interventions within the area of higher education from the mid 1990s and on, Sweden follows the international pattern of the "leaking pipeline" when it comes to gender distribution in academia. The higher up in the academic hierarchy the more men and the fewer women. The topic of this thesis is mapping gender in academic workplaces. The aim is to explore ways in which the social relations of researchers everyday working lives are gendered. This involves studing ways in which gender inequality is produced, maintained or ignored within the discource of gender equality in Swedish academic workplaces and in Swedish society at large.

Abstract Title: Gender equality – of course! A qualitative study on gender equal recruitment at a university Author: Ingrid Öhlund Several studies show that the division of gender in Swedish universities is uneven. Since universities are important organizations where our future citizens get their education and become socialized, I found it interesting to investigate how a Swedish university handles the gender equality issue in the process of recruitment. The aim of this study was to contribute with a higher level of knowledge and understanding about the recruitment process out of a gender equality perspective. The aim was also to identify which stages of the recruitment process that was vulnerable out of a gender equality perspective. To examine this, these following questions were put: Which struc-tures may seem prohibitive when it comes to recruit gender equal? and Which stages in the pro-cess is vulnerable out of a gender equal perspective?. Weber's bureaucracy model and also institutional theory with concepts such as legitimacy were used to explore the subject. To carry out the study, a qualitative method with interviews was used and seven persons with different experiences of the recruitment process participated. The result shows that there are several vulnerable stages in the recruitment process and that there are structures that may seem prohibitive from a gender equality perspective. There is a discrepancy between how the documents present the work with gender equality and the actual behavior in the organization. Another vulnerability that emerges from the study is that knowledge and information were not communicated and spread out in the organization. There are ambiguities in the routines and uncertainties on how you can, or cannot, write the employment profile to attract candidates. The commitment to gender equal recruitment is often a matter of personal interest. However, the results show that nobody opposes the issue of equality as an important matter. The results were further analyzed by using the concepts professional bureaucracy, meritocracy, inertia, legitimacy and decoupling. Keywords: Gender equality, University, Bureaucracy, Recruitment process, Meritocracy

This study examines the worsening position of jobless blue-collar workers in an increasingly meritocratic economy, and uses an innovative crossnational comparative approach to gauge how much the social safety net improves their well-being. I take pairs of unemployed autoworkers who did the same job in the same or similar firms—with the only difference being the country they live in—and compare their outcomes to measure policy effects. My analysis is based on in-depth interviews with seventy-one former autoworkers (divided among American and Canadian workers, and Detroit Three and parts factories) and thirty-six industry and community experts in Detroit, Michigan, and Windsor, Ontario, two metropolitan areas right across the river from one another. It also draws from ethnographic observation within households and the larger Detroit and Windsor areas, which allowed me to put my interviews in context and assemble a rich narrative portrait of unemployment and economic distress. Whereas one school of thought stresses the powerlessness of government in the face of globalization and related economic shifts, and another tends to see an expanded welfare state as a panacea for social ills, I stake out a view somewhere in the middle, arguing that the stronger supports in Canada help unemployed workers cope better with job retraining challenges, health problems, financial difficulties, and fragile family structures, but are limited in their ability to overcome relative inequalities: large gaps in education, family stability, and resources that exist between blue-collar workers and other segments of the labor force. I offer a theoretical and historical framework for understanding the evolution of the labor market and its consequences for less-educated workers, conceiving of the current iteration of capitalism as meritocratic in its focus on human capital as the just arbiter of status, and differentiating this meritocratic orientation from other egalitarian and fraternal approaches to policy and morality in past historical periods. Finally, I examine the meritocratic ideology that blunts political responses to rising inequality, finding that such views, long associated with white-collar professionals, have come to affect the thinking of even unionized blue-collar workers. / Sociology

Submitted by Tatiana Lima (tatianasl@ufba.br) on 2015-04-13T18:44:13Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Frizzo, Anise Carla.pdf: 3155431 bytes, checksum: ca631e22b44a218583bda1320f1ff225 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Tatiana Lima (tatianasl@ufba.br) on 2015-05-05T19:39:46Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 Frizzo, Anise Carla.pdf: 3155431 bytes, checksum: ca631e22b44a218583bda1320f1ff225 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2015-05-05T19:39:46Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Frizzo, Anise Carla.pdf: 3155431 bytes, checksum: ca631e22b44a218583bda1320f1ff225 (MD5) / O objetivo desta pesquisa do tipo qualitativa exploratória é identificar desafios e propor estratégias de gestão para o desempenho com base na meritocracia, cuja problemática se estabelece em torno de quais as dificuldades e os desafios suportados pelos gerentes de uma unidade da Petrobras, localizada no Estado de São Paulo, pertencente à área de Exploração & Produção, para a gestão de desempenho de empregados, bem como quais ações estratégicas podem ser implementadas para a melhoria das práticas de meritocracia como sistema de recompensas, que são processos inerentes à gestão de desempenho de pessoas. Poucas pesquisas examinam o impacto da meritocracia dentro das práticas de gestão de desempenho, mas pressupõe-se que o potencial de melhoria desta gestão de pessoas é alto. A base teórica da pesquisa provém de estudos sobre gestão de desempenho e recompensa baseada no mérito e o estudo empírico é baseado na atuação dos gerentes desta unidade da Petrobras, que gerenciam quase 50% dos empregados atuando em regime de trabalho offshore, ou seja, em unidades marítimas de produção situadas da Bacia de Santos em São Paulo e na Bacia de Campos, no Rio de Janeiro. Foram aplicados entrevistas semiestruturadas para quatro gerentes escolhidos criteriosamente, cujas respostas serviram de base para a formulação de questionário fechado, aplicado a todo o corpo gerencial desta unidade. Os resultados revelam seis grandes desafios, categorizados como de cultura, de processo, de tempo, de integração, de comunicação e de igualdade; além de quatro estratégias de gestão direcionadas para a comunicação, para a integração, para os processos e para a cultura, ambos com a finalidade de proporcionar melhorias na gestão de desempenho e na gestão de pessoas como um todo. Esses desafios e estratégias também contribuem para reforçar o impacto importante que o reconhecimento por merecimento desempenha nas práticas de gestão de desempenho nas organizações. The purpose of this exploratory qualitative study is to identify challenges and propose management strategies for performance based on meritocracy, whose problematic if laying down around which the difficulties and challenges supported by managers of a unit of Petrobras, located in the State of São Paulo, belonging to the area of Exploration & Production, for managing employee performance, as well as what strategic actions can be implemented to improve the practices of meritocracy as systems of rewards, which are processes involved in the performance management people system. Few researches examine the impact of meritocracy within the practices of performance management, but it is assumed that the potential for improvement of this people management is high. The theoretical basis of the research comes from studies on performance management and reward based on merit and the empirical study is based on the performance of the manager of this unit of Petrobras, which manage almost 50 % of employees working in scheme of work offshore, or, inmaritime production units located in the Santos Basin in São Paulo and in the Campos Basin in Rio de Janeiro. Semi-structured interviews were applied to four carefully chosen managers whose responses formed the basis for the formulation of closed questionnaire, applied to the entire management team of this unit. The results reveal six major challenges, categorized as culture, process, time, of integration, of communication and of equality beside four management strategies directed to the communication, to integration, to processes and to the culture, both with the purpose of providing improvements in performance management and in the management of people as a whole. These challenges and strategies also contribute to reinforce the significant impact that the recognition by merit plays in management practices of performance in organizations.

abstract: This dissertation explores the history of ancestral rituals and the related political controversy in the Song China (960-1279). Considering the pivotal role played by ancestral rites in shaping Chinese identity and consciousness, this study contributes to a better understanding of how ancestral ritual has been politicized in Chinese history as a specific cultural apparatus to manipulate politics through theatrical performance and liturgical discussion. Through a contextual analysis of a variety of Song scholar-officials and their ritual writings, including memorials, private letters, and commentaries on the ritual Classics, this study demonstrates that Song ritual debates over the zhaomu &#26157;&#31302; sequence--that is, the positioning of ancestral temples and spirit tablets in ancestral temples with preparation for alternation or removal--differentiated scholar-officials into separate factions of revivalists, conventionalists and centrists. From a new perspective of ritual politics, this study reveals the discursiveness of the New Learning (xinxue&#26032;&#23416;) community and its profound influence on the Learning of the Way (Daoxue &#36947;&#23416;) fellowship of the Southern Song (1127-1279). It examines the evolution of the New Learning fellowship as a dynamic process that involved internal tension and differentiation. Daoxue ritualism was a continuation of this process in partaking in the revivalist approach of ritual that was initiated by the New Learning circle. Nowadays, the proliferation of ritual and Classical studies crystallizes the revitalization of Confucianism and Confucian rituals in China. Taking zhaomu as a point of departure, this project provides a lens through which modern scholars can explore the persistent tension between knowledge and power by rethinking the modernization of ritual and ritual politics in contemporary China. / Dissertation/Thesis / Doctoral Dissertation History 2015

Made available in DSpace on 2015-05-07T15:08:34Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivototal.pdf: 6572422 bytes, checksum: db3e1497b20ee16ecdbfcde06ceb4aa6 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-10-25 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / In the 1940s, created the industrial schools of the National Service of Industrial Learning (SENAI) in order to prepare skilled labor to work in factories. In the interior of Paraíba, this industrial ideology also became evident through the textile factory located in a district Mamanguape/PB. This project generated around fifteen thousand direct jobs, resulting from the exemption from Tax on Goods (ICM), statewide, for twenty-five years, granted by the governor at the time. Through the legislation that implemented the SENAI and the Organic Law of Industrial Education, the School of Learning that was held exclusively by the industrial establishment that created it, would not make the payment of compulsory contributions due to SENAI, thus becoming a School Exemption. Thus, these two tax incentives contributed to serve the interests of the Company Fabric Rio Tinto (CTRT) and also for the creation of the School of Learning Colonel Frederick Lundgren (EACFL). This Learning School offering vocational training for the children of workers and aimed to the preparation of manpower for the local industry. Thus, this study aims to analyze the educational experience of workers in CTRT and reconstruct the history of the School of SENAI of Rio Tinto (EACFL). Therefore, this case study research carried out the following types: bibliographic, documental and field. The documentary research is limited to the period 1944-1967 - the first time in March the creation of the school in October 2, 1944 through the waiver agreement between the SENAI/PE and CTRT. The second date with respect to the end of this waiver agreement in which the EACFL was maintained solely by plant tissues. For the collection of documentary data, mapped daily class, students control sheets, evaluations, certificates and relations of graduating classes. This data was collected in the archives of CTRT and the Regional SENAI in Campina Grande/PB. In the field study, we used interviews with thematic former students/ older workers school and factory, residents in the city of Rio Tinto, to collect data. We use the ideas of Thompson, the english historian who has as one of its foci search category experience, articulating with the culture. The results indicate that EACFL with the educational philosophy of SENAI, implemented a school culture to the plant and preparing students to become future labor efficient and disciplined in order to guarantee the permanence of man's exploitation by capital. However, this pedagogy capitalist, which enables to domination, created outlines outside the school. The vocational educational experience in Rio Tinto through the school and the factory also brought an education generated in these environments of social interactions and everything indicates that sparked a new culture, or face the domination and mobilize to the scope of the claims, culminating the organization of workers in union and political. / Na década de 1940, os industriais criaram escolas do Serviço Nacional de Aprendizagem Industrial (SENAI) visando preparar mão-de-obra especializada para o trabalho nas fábricas. No interior da Paraíba, essa ideologia industrial também se tornou evidente por intermédio da fábrica de tecidos situada em um distrito de Mamanguape/PB. Tal empreendimento gerava em torno de quinze mil empregos diretos, fruto da isenção do Imposto Sobre Circulação de Mercadorias (ICM), de âmbito estadual, por vinte e cinco anos, concedida pelo governador da época. Por intermédio da Legislação que implantou o SENAI e da Lei Orgânica do Ensino Industrial, a Escola de Aprendizagem que fosse mantida exclusivamente pelo estabelecimento industrial que a criou, não faria o recolhimento da contribuição compulsória devida ao SENAI, tornando-se assim, uma Escola de Isenção. Dessa forma, esses dois incentivos fiscais contribuíram para atender aos interesses da Companhia de Tecidos Rio Tinto (CTRT) e também para a criação da Escola de Aprendizagem Coronel Frederico Lundgren (EACFL). Essa Escola de Aprendizagem oferecia formação profissional destinada aos filhos de operários e tinha como finalidade a preparação da mão-de-obra para a indústria local. Assim, este estudo tem por objetivos analisar a experiência educacional dos operários da CTRT e reconstruir a história da Escola do SENAI de Rio Tinto (EACFL). Para tanto, este estudo de caso realizou os seguintes tipos pesquisa: bibliográfica, documental e de campo. A pesquisa documental encontra-se circunscrita ao período de 1944-1967 no primeiro marco temporal a criação da escola em 02 de outubro de 1944 por intermédio do acordo de isenção entre o SENAI/PE e a CTRT. A segunda data diz respeito ao fim do referido acordo de isenção em que a EACFL era mantida exclusivamente pela fábrica de tecidos. Para a coleta de dados documentais, mapeamos diários de classe, fichas de controle de alunos, avaliações, certificados e relações de turmas concluintes. Essa coleta ocorreu nos arquivos da CTRT e da Delegacia Regional do SENAI em Campina Grande/PB. Já na pesquisa de campo, valemonos de entrevistas temáticas com ex-alunos/ex-operários da escola e da fábrica, residentes na cidade de Rio Tinto, para a coleta de dados. Recorremos às ideias de Thompson, historiador inglês que tem como um de seus focos de pesquisa a categoria experiência, se articulando com a de cultura. Os resultados indicam que a EACFL, com a filosofia educacional do SENAI, implantou uma cultura escolar para a fábrica e preparava o aluno para transformar-se em um futuro operário eficiente e disciplinado, visando garantir a permanência da exploração do homem pelo capital. No entanto, essa pedagogia capitalista, que capacita para a dominação, criou contornos para fora da escola. A experiência educacional profissionalizante em Rio Tinto por intermédio da escola e da fábrica trouxe também uma educação gerada nesses ambientes de interações sociais e tudo indica que despertou uma nova cultura, ou seja, enfrentar a dominação e mobilizar-se para o âmbito das reivindicações, culminando na organização dos trabalhadores no âmbito sindical e político.

Submitted by Renata Lopes (renatasil82@gmail.com) on 2016-04-25T18:14:36Z No. of bitstreams: 1 carlabertaniaconceicaodesouza.pdf: 2600553 bytes, checksum: 4f5c366fe3c31627348de6ee71254d9b (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Adriana Oliveira (adriana.oliveira@ufjf.edu.br) on 2016-05-02T00:39:16Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 carlabertaniaconceicaodesouza.pdf: 2600553 bytes, checksum: 4f5c366fe3c31627348de6ee71254d9b (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-05-02T00:39:16Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 carlabertaniaconceicaodesouza.pdf: 2600553 bytes, checksum: 4f5c366fe3c31627348de6ee71254d9b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-01-28 / O trabalho que ora se apresenta analisa os resultados da Regional Serrana II, localizada no município de Nova Friburgo, no Programa de Educação do Rio de Janeiro e as possíveis causas que contribuíram para o não alcance, por parte de quatro escolas, das metas estabelecidas pela Secretaria de Estado de Educação do Rio de Janeiro em 2011 e 2012. O Programa de Educação apresenta um planejamento estratégico estruturado em quatro eixos, incluindo políticas de ensino, políticas de gestão de pessoas, políticas de infraestrutura e gestão da comunicação, com estratégias de valorização de servidores através de meritocracia e bonificação por resultados, além de metas estabelecidas por meio de resultados anteriores de cada unidade escolar. A pesquisa realizou-se por meio de entrevistas semiestruturadas, questionários em escala de Likert e análise de resultados de avaliações externas realizadas com os gestores das quatro unidades escolares e com amostras de professores. Os resultados dos estudos foram submetidos a autores escolhidos para subsidiarem o referencial teórico da pesquisa. A Regional Serrana II, nos anos de 2011 e 2012, destacou-se no ranking do estado entre as primeiras colocadas e a maioria das escolas que a compõe alcançou as metas propostas. A partir dos resultados da pesquisa, propõe-se um Plano de Ação Educacional (PAE), sugerindo a criação de um Grupo de Líderes (GL) que se destaca por ser formado por gestores que conseguiram resultados satisfatórios, por meio de uma gestão participativa e focada em resultados pedagógicos. / The results of four schools of Regional Serrana II in Rio de Janeiro Education Program are the subject of this research that aims to analyze the possible causes that contributed to not reach the goals established by the State of Rio de Janeiro Education 2011 and 2012. The research was carried out through semi-structured interviews, questionnaires on Likert scale and analysis of external evaluation results. The work has a focus on four schools analyzing different situations and identifying the reasons that may have contributed to the poor results at the start of program implementation, inadequate communication, irrelevant leadership profile, lack of information about the program, results of expropriation and the consequent departure from the proposed goals. The research has identified different characteristics to the same program by the analyzed school communities and the lack of cohesion in the work of some teams, but also identified the search for performance improvement in one and the difference that makes a participatory and collaborative management in school management. From the analysis carried out in the four school units, we intend to make the policies formulated by SEEDUC even closer on who runs through a Managers Leaders Group's own Regional Serrana II that has to accompany the development of the program in schools surveyed disseminating their actions, exchanging experience and showing that it is possible to achieve the expected results with planning, research, focus on results, teamwork and determination.